the transes are out of control!

i would really like it if ciswomen momentarily subjected to transmisogyny would say anything other than "i was born female" as a way to deflect. it just screams "this shouldn't happen to me, im not your main target".

lady gaga was the baseline for what an ally should be. if confronted with accusation of being trans, your default response should be "okay? so what? is that such a big deal".

I've been thinking a lot lately about how many trans women I've known who come to realize over time that they experience much more bottom dysphoria than they've consciously understood

returning to this brilliant post bc ​ive been getting really into centaurs lately for normal reasons and im really noticing that this is a trend there too. presumably this pervades in many terato spaces but im not extraordinarily active in many of those. anyway it’s already exhausting lol, it really hit me when i saw a random post that was like “centaur gf” and one of the things was “big spoon obviously” and it reallyyyy made me pause and go holdddd on lol. obviously centaurs are pregnant with metaphor but omfg maybe the huge horse girl wants to be cuddled too bitch. it happens with werewolves too and it’s just so obvious. why would a girl with a wolfcock exist if not to breed. why would a girl with a horsecock exist. and like, god, the most frustrating thing abt this is is that i know it probably seems ridiculous from the point of anyone who’s not a trans girl lol.

This is literally a point that Julia Serano makes in "Whipping Girl." She points to the fact that marginalized people have to understand the privileges and struggles that those who are held above them in society have, and their own marginalization, better than the people above them in the social heirachy do in order to survive.

#Helios was declawed by his former owners so he doesn't just slap things he dislikes like most cats#he really only feels confident in hissing at them#Especially because a lot of the thing he doesn't like are bugs and those are sharp sometimes :(#Selene has figured this out and now when she hears him hiss she sprints over the kill the fuck out of the bug#Helios has learned she will do this so he'll hiss at stuff louder and louder until she hears him#A nervous old man and his emotional support homicidal maniac tags by @gallusrostromegalus

I couldn't get these two and their dynamic out of my head, @gallusrostromegalus I doodled them (guessed on their collars)

Hey btw just firing a few rounds into my audience real quick: genuinely at this point with the ways all the boys I was forced to be around in high school treated the girls around them - once had to block a guy from taking upskirts of a girl who was passed out backstage during theater class:

Just like, remembering the way other boys gossiped with me about how much they wanted to fuck the - very attractive let's not mince words - homeroom teacher I had incredible respect and in retrospect almost certainly gender envy for, the way they didn't seem to see her as someone to strive endlessly for the approval of the way I did. It felt actively, viscerally wrong to hear them talking about her that way, so all I could do is nod and smile along because they were older and all in agreement.

This video was a fucking trip to watch.

GIRL

linuxposting tends to be frustrating on this site because on one hand I am deeply aware that even among people willing to switch it's enough that one program that they use on daily basis does not work on Linux, it's enough to be a deal breaker, and this results in this mismatch of experiences where for one person switching is extremely maddening endeavour while for others they go "hey it was incredibly simple for me what gives" and for both happens to be true and they both end up talking over each other because for both of them this was their exact lived experience.